Re: Linux compatibility with more than one Linux installed?

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
The linux-base port is supposed to provide good integration into FreeBSD. Ideally the integration is seamless. The linux-dist ports provide a complete linux environment. You chroot into it and you have a complete linux system. You can compile linux binaries inside the +linux-dist. You

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Porting application with RUN_DEPENDS and extra knobs

2011-12-01 Thread Muhammad Moinur Rahman
Hi, I am trying to port one of our Home Brew application for FreeBSD as we are moving towards BSD from Linux. Now while creating the Makefile for creating a port I am in a trouble. I want to automate the full script. My application has RUN_DEPENDS for perl. And perl should be built with

FreeBSD Port: rt-3.8.11

2011-12-01 Thread Thomas Sibley
Hello, Thanks for packaging RT! It appears that Makefile.cpan hasn't been updated from 3.8.8's dependencies to 3.8.11's. Consequently, RT will be broken after moving from 3.8.8 to a newer version. This was discovered while troubleshooting an RT upgrade for a customer whose system didn't have

CFR: add an example of manually fetching distfiles to Porter's Handbook

2011-12-01 Thread Mark Linimon
A few people are getting creative again on ways to express this common need. AFAIK the following is the best way to do it. What do people think? mcl Index: book.sgml === RCS file: